Amd checking mechanism



J. V. HORN. COIN INDICATiNG AND CHECKING MECHANISM.

APPLICATION v FILED DEC- 4, 1920.

Patented Feb; 21, 1922.

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J. V. HORN.

COIN INDICATING AND CHECKING MECHANtSM.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-4. 1920.

1,407,541 Patented Feb. 21', 1922.

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ATTORNEYS JOSEPH v. HORN, or nonenessvrnnn, ennnsrnvanrn.

corn merchants c" Application filed December 4, 18328.

To all 1072mm it may concern 7 Be it known that L'Josarn V. Hoax, a citizen of the'United States, residing at Douglassville, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Coin Indicating and Checking Mechanism, of which the following is a specification.

In cafeterias in which different articles are-sold under the self serve system, it has been deemed essential to employ a checker to determine the proper payment and tender the cheek to the purchaser, the paymentof the amount due being made to the cashier before leaving the restaurant; or, in some systems ofself serve restaurants it is necessary to present the purchaser with a blank checlr upon entering and the amount is registered upon this check by the attendant who serves the articles desired. The purchaser makes payment to the cashier before leaving the restaurant; 7 In devices now in operation it is necessar to employ a checker and a cashier. I

It is the purpose of my'present invention to devise a check upon mistakes by the attendant or purchaser by means of an intermediate-coin rest between the points Where the coins are first visible and the money drawer wheresuch coins are finally deposited, thus giving the manager of the restaurant ample opportunity to check up the amount to be deposited, as the money remains visible until the following purchase is made.

'lVith the above andcther objects in view as will hereinafter more fully appear, my

invention comprehends a novel construction and arrangement of coinindicating and checking mechanism.

It further compreh nds a novel construction and arrangement of a coin chute hav ing a transparent portion, a novel construe-V tion and arrangement of a support for retaining the coins passing through the chute above said support so that they will be readily visible to the attendant, customer and the manager of the restaurant, novel means for actuating such support, and a novel 0011- struction of a casing whereby after the supporthas been moved the coins will still be visible to the customer and to the manager of the restaurant.

Other novel features of construction and advantage will hereinafter more fully appear Specification of Letters Eatent.

.GKING- IlL'ECIEIANISIVL Patented i eusi, rose. Serial l'l'c. 423,412.

For the purpose of yention, I l'iave' shown mg drawings a typical embodiment thereof which met present preferred by me, since this embodiment will be found in practice to give sat sfactory and reliable results although 1t is to be understood that the va r ous instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arran ed and organized and that my invention is hot limitcd to the precise arrangement and or anization of these instrumentalities ll l'ell'l shown and described.

'lfigure 1 represents, in perspective, a coin im'licatiiig mechz'inism. embodyin my in vention. I D U Figure 2 represents a front elevation of a portion of my device with a cover plate removed.

Figure 3 represents, in side elevation. a camniember employer. I

higu re 4. represents a section on line 1 4 or l igure l.

Figureb re n'osen'ts a section on line 55 of Figure 2.

Figure (i represents a section taken substantially on line 5-5 of Figure 2 with certain parts omitted, and showing more clearly the manner in which the rotation of the coin support is effected.

F i gure 7 represents a section on line 7-4 of Figure 2.

ljigure 8 represents, in section, another embodiment f my-invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings.

1 designates a coin chute which is formed in sections and consists of a front member 2 and a rear member 3 which are connected together by means of fasteningdevices 4. lhe guxtaposedwalls of the members 2 and 3 contribute to form a coin chute 5 and are illustrating my inin the accompanypreferably recessed or slotted for this purbers l and 11 which contribute to form the sight opening are spaced from each other by means of spacing strips 12. The transparent members and 11 are retained in position by means of abloclr 13 which closes the outer end of the slot 9, and this block is secured in position b means of a fastening device 14.

The members 2 and 3 which form the coin chute are slotted, as indicated at 15, see more particularly Figure 4, in order to form a space toreceive a rotatable coin support 16 which ismounted on a shaft 17, the ends of which are iournalled in slots 18 formed in the chute members 2 and. 3, see

i more particularly Figures land 2.

The coin support 16 is formed of two end discs 19 which are slotted to receive the ends of the plates 20 and 21, respectively, which form blades disposed at substantially right angles to each other so that four pockets 22 are formed. 23 designates the rear bracket to which is connected a cover plate 24 by means of fastening devices 25. The rear bracket plate has side bars connected to the rear chute member 3 and one of these bars is slotted, as indicated at'26, see Figure 5. 27'

V designates a front bracket which has atop bar 28 and depending side bars 29 one of which is grooved, as indicated at 30. The

bracket 23 with its cover plate 24 and the front bracket 27 with its cover plate 3% and transparent plate 33 contribute with the chute members 2 and 3 to form an inclosing casing for the rotatable coin support, and the front po'rtionoi the casing is provided with the sightopening through which coins bled position.

or checks in a juxtaposed pocket 22 will be visible.

Referring now to the shaft 17 of the rotatable support 16, it will be seen from Figures 5 and 6 that this shaft has fixed to one end of it in any desired manner a cam 38 which, as illustrated, is in the form of a rectangular block. The slots 26 and 30, see Figure 5,have movably mounted in them a member 39 which is in the form of a platev or bar having a recess d0 into which the cam 38 is received when the parts are in assem- This recess 40 has its bottom 4-1 and one side 42 arranged at substantially right angles to each other, so that when the parts are in'their normal position, asseen in Figure 5, such side walls will conform to the juxtaposed side wallsof the cam 38, and the coin support 16 will be retained in a stationary position.

The member 39 is retained in the position seen in Figure 5 by means of a spring 4-3 one end of which bears against the'bottom oi the member 39 while its opposite end is.

received in the pocket 44: formed in the chute members 2 and 3 and bears against a set screw 45 in threaded engagement with the coin chute members 2 and 3. The outer end of this screw-45 opens through the members 2 and 3 so that it can be adjusted, when the parts are assembled, to vary thetension oi the spring d3. The recess 40, see Figure 3, has its front wall curved as at 46 in order to form a clearance for the cam 38 and the rear wall of the recess is 'p'rovided with a into which extends a pin57 projecting from,

an arm 58 which latter projects rearwardly from the 'cam controlling member 39.

Referring now more particularly to Figare 4: it will be seen that, the rear chute member 3 is provided with'a shoulder 59 and the wall of the groove ofthe rear chute member 3 curves forwardly,'a s indicated at 60, while the frontcoin chute member 2 terminates at 61 so that the jmoney or checks passing through the coin chute, after passing from the rotatable coin support 16, will be discharged .into the money drawer 62 having closed sides, a closed bottom and an open top. This money drawer is slidable in a money box 63 which is secured to the rear member ,3 by means of fastening devices 64:. The drawer 62 is provided with a lock 65, the plunger 66 of which bears against the upwardly extending flange 67 of the money box 63. The drawer 62 is provided with an operating handle 68.

, In many cases arising in practice, it is advantageous to have the second sight opening visible from a plurality of sides of the inechanism and by way of illustration, I

have shown in Figure 8 a second sight opening as having the rear cover plate 2% pro vided with a transparent portion 69 and the plates or blades 20 and 21 are made of transparent material, as illustrated in Figure 8, so that the coins which have been retained in a pocket of the movable support 16 will be visible to the attendant as well as to the purchaser and-the manager of the llO restaurant. It is therefore to be understood that it is within the spirit and scope of my invention to have-the second sight opening as well as the first sight opening constructed in such a manner that the coin sert table have one of the coin indicatingand checking mechanisms supported at the delivery end of'their respective counter in a position accessible'to the purchaser;

Assuming that the amount of purchase is thirty-seven cents, for example, the purchaser would place thirty-seven cents in the coin chute 5, for example, a twenty-five cent piece, a ten cent piece and two one cent pieces. These would be arrested in their movement through the coin chute 5 by one of the blades 20 or Qlso that they would be visible through the sight opening 6, so that the amount which has been deposited will be visible to the attendant behind the delivery counter, to the purchaser in front of the counter, and also to the manager of the cafeteria. Theattendant now moves the handle 54: downwardlythereby causing the member 39 to slide downwardly and the bottom face of the cam 38 will be above the shoulder 47. As the" member 39 moves downwardly the plunger 49 will be moved upwardly, thereby placing a tension on the spring 51, so that as soon as the shoulder t7 passes beneath the cam 38 the force of the spring 51 will imparta partial rotation to the cam 38 and the upward or return movement of the member 39 will cause the same to rotate one-quarter of a revolution. The blade, such as 20, on which the coins have been resting, will move forwardly so that the coins will bereceived in the pocket 22 in rear of such blade, so that these coins will still be exposed to view through the sight opening 3?. On the next operation of the handle 54:, these coins will pass from the pockets in which they have been retained into the continuation of the coin chute 5, and will be discharged into the money drawer 62, as is apparent.

It will thus be seen that after a purchase is made and the attendant has operated the handle 54, the coins which have been deposited will pass beyond his vision but will still be exposed to the view of the manager of the restaurant, so that the manager has a check on the attendant and the purchaser.

It will now be apparent that I have de vised a new and useful coin indicating and checking mechanism which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described a pic ferred embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to'be understoodl'hat such embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: a

1. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, a coin chute having a plurality of sight openings visible from the same side of the mechanism, said coin chute being formed by a plurality of members contributing to form a passage and a guide for a coin in such passage, and means to arrest the coins in their passage through the coin chute to successively render them visible through said sight openings.

2. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, a coin chute having a sight opening visible from the front and the back of the mechanism and a second sight opening visible from the front of the mechanism, said coin chute being formed by a plurality of members contributing to form a passage and a guide for a coin in such passage, and means to successively position the coins to render them first visible at the first'sight opening and thereafter visible at the second sight opening.

3. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, a coin chute having a sight opening visible from the front and the back of the mechanism and a second sight opening visible only from the front of the mechanism, said coin chute being formed by a plurality of members contributing to form a passage and a guide for a coin in such passage, means to successively position the coins to render them first visible at the first sight opening and thereafter visible at the second sight opening, and a coin receiving box into which the coins are discharged from the coin chute.

4a. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, the combination with a coin chute consisting of spaced members each of which serve to guide a coin in its passage through the chute, of means to render a payment deposited in the chute visible to the attendant in rear of the mechanism and to the purchaser in front of the mechanism, and means to thereafter render the payment visible to the purchaser in front of the mechanism without being visible to the attendant in rear of the mechanism.

5. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, the combination with a coin chute having a sight opening visible from the front and rear of the mechanism, of a movable member having means in the path of a coin to arrest it in a position to render it visible through said sight opening, a cam connected with said member, a cam controlling member, a tension device for the cam controlling member, and means to move said cam controlling member inv a direction to increase the tension of said tension device whereby when said means is released the said tension device will actuate .the cam controlling member in a direction to effect movement of said movable member.

6. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, the combination with a coin chute having a sight opening visible from the front and rear of the mechanism and from the front of the machine, a movable member to arrest the payment passing through the coin chute first in proximity to the first sight opening and second in proximity to the second sight opening, and cam actuated means to actuate said movable member.

8. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, the combination with a coin chute having a sight opening visible from the front and rear of the mechanism and having a second sight opening posterior to the first sight opening and visible only from the front of the mechanism, a rotatable bladed com support havlng a series of pockets, said support when in normal posltion havlng a blade in position to arrest a coin to render it visible through the first sight opening, and means to move said sup port to permit the coin to pass beyond the range of the first sight opening and into one of said pockets andto bring such pocket movable member.

into a position to render the coin therein v1s1ble through the second sight opening.

9. In a 00111 indicating and checking mechanism, the combination with a coin chute having a plurality of sight openings, of a coin support to successively retain a coin in position to be visible through each sight opening, a cam on said member, a cam slide, a tension device to retain said cam slide in position to prevent movement of said cam and thereby of said member, a handle to move said cam slide in. one direction, and means carried by said cam slide to engage said cam and partially rotate it into aposition to be engaged by. said cam slide on the 'latters rearward movement and thereby effect the proper movement of said 10. In a coin indicating-and checking mechanism, the combination with a coin chute having a sight opening, of a movable member to arrest a coin in a position to be visible through said sight opening, a cam on said member, a cam slide having a recess to receive said camand having certain of its walls conforming to said cam to retain it in a stationary position and provided with a shoulder, a spring pressed plunger carried by said cam slide to engage said cam and turn it into a position to be engaged by said shoulder, a manually actuated handle to move said cam slide in one direction, and a tension device to eitect the movement of said cam slide in a reverse direction. r

11. In a coin indicating and checking mechanism, the combination with a. coin chute having a transparent portion to render the coins visible through a plurality of sides of the mechanism, a money box into which the coins are discharged from said chute, means to arrest the coins in their passage through the chute in proximity to said transparent portion, a tension device for said means, and a manually actuated handle movable in one direction to increase the tension of said tension device, said tension device when said handle is released being operative to move the coin arresting means into position to permit the arrested coins to pass on through the coin chute.

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